The industrial obsolescence, history of deception
published: 28/07/10, 22:48
How to consume, sustainable, while more and more products are unilaterally programmed for a short life?
Moderation added by moderation: the video is no longer available but you can watch the report of Special Envoy on the subject: https://www.econologie.com/grand-bluff- ... sommation/
http://envoye-special.france2.fr/les-re ... bluff.html
Debate: Company-and-philosophy / the great-bluff-sur-France-2-company-of-disposable-t9342.html
And more recently (and even more interesting), at the beginning of 2011, the documentary of Arte: "Prêt à jet" in full here
https://www.econologie.com/telechargeme ... rogrammee/
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What the law says:
In France:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_en_dro ... n%C3%A7ais
In Anglo Saxon law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrepresentation
In the case 2, so for a huge part of our planet, there is fraud, ie, lie and deception by hiding an important feature of the product, product become highly crap, carefully constituted to make it very fragile and so, program it for an ever shorter life.
A good of consumption: Guarantee: 1 to 2 years
Home: Warranty: 10 years ... while your credit will last 20 to 30 years.
To learn more
Press right now:
A detailed file on the subject in the July issue of 69 issue of Nexus magazine, currently on newsstands.
http://www.nexus.fr/nexus_en_kiosque.php
Also read in this issue of Nexus, an edifying article on electroculture ... which dates from ... 1912.
There remains the question:
How to act to stop this obviously illegal deception?
Class Action? Canada? France ... We can dream
Ideas for action?
Moderation added by moderation: the video is no longer available but you can watch the report of Special Envoy on the subject: https://www.econologie.com/grand-bluff- ... sommation/
http://envoye-special.france2.fr/les-re ... bluff.html
Debate: Company-and-philosophy / the great-bluff-sur-France-2-company-of-disposable-t9342.html
And more recently (and even more interesting), at the beginning of 2011, the documentary of Arte: "Prêt à jet" in full here
https://www.econologie.com/telechargeme ... rogrammee/
ou
What the law says:
In France:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_en_dro ... n%C3%A7ais
In Anglo Saxon law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrepresentation
In the case 2, so for a huge part of our planet, there is fraud, ie, lie and deception by hiding an important feature of the product, product become highly crap, carefully constituted to make it very fragile and so, program it for an ever shorter life.
A good of consumption: Guarantee: 1 to 2 years
Home: Warranty: 10 years ... while your credit will last 20 to 30 years.
To learn more
Press right now:
A detailed file on the subject in the July issue of 69 issue of Nexus magazine, currently on newsstands.
http://www.nexus.fr/nexus_en_kiosque.php
Also read in this issue of Nexus, an edifying article on electroculture ... which dates from ... 1912.
There remains the question:
How to act to stop this obviously illegal deception?
Class Action? Canada? France ... We can dream
Ideas for action?